While Chislehurst Common has won another Green Flag Award and a Gold Award from London in Bloom, permission has ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook,Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. The night men of Victorian London had it rough. Tasked with ...

While Chislehurst Common has won another Green Flag Award and a Gold Award from London in Bloom, permission has been given to ...

Plop and Flo are the first arrivals at Thames Water's Crossness site since spring 2010, and are the first barn owls born there since 2007 A nature reserve next to a sewage works in east London has two ...

“Yep, it smells about as bad as I expected.” It’s a weird thing to say about somewhere that’s been on your visit-wishlist for a while, but those were my exact words when I walked into a building ...

Last March, members of the Crossness Engines Trust were hit with a devastating blow after discovering the iconic Beam Engine House contained asbestos. It prompted emergency removal works and ...

South east London locals have started a campaign against plans to build a pair of carbon capture plants on a nearby nature reserve. The residents have started a fundraiser to challenge the plans, ...

Crossness Pumping Station in Abbey Wood was the final cog in the wheel of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's transformation of London's sewage system. Before then, raw sewage flowed straight into the Thames. It ...

London is full of crap. So says anyone up North, and anyone who’s been to Chiltern Firehouse. There is some undeniable truth in this though, in the most corporeal sense, since the sheer numbers in the ...

THANKS to the work of London plumber Thomas Crapper, the popularity of the flushing toilet grew rapidly in the first half of the 19th century. By the mid 1900s there were an estimated 250,000 new WCs ...